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NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, March 29 (game #1022)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 28 (game #1021).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

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NYT Connections today (game #1022) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for game 1022 on a purple background

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • GRAFFITI
  • RECEIPT
  • STRETCH
  • HUSTLE
  • PSYCHO
  • ROBOT
  • BEAUTY
  • STENCIL
  • POSTER
  • CORPS
  • TWIST
  • QUESTION
  • CHECK
  • MASHED POTATO
  • MURAL
  • COUP

NYT Connections today (game #1022) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: Urban art formats
  • GREEN: Boogie back in the day
  • BLUE: Perfect silence
  • PURPLE: Add Zuckerberg’s first name

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1022) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: IMAGES SEEN ON THE STREET
  • GREEN: RETRO DANCE CRAZES
  • BLUE: SILENT "p" 
  • PURPLE: ___ MARK 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1022) - the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 1022 on a purple background

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1022, are…

  • YELLOW: IMAGES SEEN ON THE STREET GRAFFITI, MURAL, POSTER, STENCIL
  • GREEN: RETRO DANCE CRAZES HUSTLE, MASHED POTATO, ROBOT, TWIST
  • BLUE: SILENT "p" CORPS, COUP, PSYCHO, RECEIPT
  • PURPLE: ___ MARK BEAUTY, CHECK, QUESTION, STRETCH
  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

This was a very rare game for me in that I saw all the groups at once.

That said, I did have a small question mark over the dance crazes — I knew HUSTLE, MASHED POTATO and TWIST of course, but I thought ROBOT might be a trick as that seemed to belong in the 21st century, whereas the others were popular back in the 1960 and 1970s. The PSYCHO sounded like a possibility.

Instead, I put that to one side and submitted the two groups I was certain of. I was convinced that one of them would be the purple group, but alas I picked SILENT “p” over ____ MARK. It feels like a missed opportunity to bag another “purple first”.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, March 28, game #1021)

  • YELLOW: STEP ONTO, AS A VEHICLE BOARD, EMBARK, ENTER, MOUNT
  • GREEN: QUANTITIES IN MECHANICS ACCELERATION, FORCE, MASS, MOMENTUM
  • BLUE: TEXTBOOK IMAGES FIGURE, ILLUSTRATION, PICTURE, PLATE
  • PURPLE: _____ PLANT FACE, PITCHER, POWER, ROBERT

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Marc McLaren
Marc McLaren
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Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).

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